Sunday 31 Aug

RUIS (NOISE) is an absurdist film about media, a brick, rats, people, and alienation. The story takes place in a disorienting world plagued by rats.

In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

In a near-future Houston, street junkie cybercriminal Dij scrapes together survival by pulling underground hacks with his custom mobile rig - but now, he’s gotten a hold of something huge, deadly and valuable - and everyone wants him dead.

Rage, an ugly emotion. But is it? We will let the anger consume us, let the fire change us. We let it burn away all that does not serve us.

The peaceful life of a soon-to-be father is disrupted by bizarre events and strange apparitions. What is happening? What is real, and what is a product of his imagination?

In this found-footage analog horror short, a 1980s tele-dating tape is not what it seems... Shot entirely on VHS, on a budget of $800.

Two guys bring a toy to life with holy water. Chaos unfolds as a horny statue attacks, Jesus arrives with bizarre demands, and salvation comes in the most unexpected way.

Detlev doesn't have a problem. Why should he have a problem? He's obviously doing great.

The animated documentary 'Wat is Spreken Waard?' deals with a difficult subject matter and gives a glimpse into the minds of two people who have committed criminal offences.

On a winter's evening, the inhabitants of the Flemish town of Broekem gather in the local parish hall to celebrate an important event.

A man rescues a boy and later tries to get him off his back but to little avail, so they end up drifting around a subterranean world, populated by grotesque masked figures. A hundred years after Chaplin filmed his first feature film, The Kid, Norbert Pfaffenbichler offers an experimental punk-style interpretation, which the filmmaker himself has defined as a dystopian slapstick film.

Corrupted by the power of Cipriano's Black Book, a Jesuit and his followers begin a reign of horror in colonial Brazil, until they be cursed to live forever trapped under the graves of a cemetery. Now, centuries later, they are ready to break free and spread their evil all over the world.

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

Sometime, hopefully not too soon, in a place wherever but not here, all life will have moved underground after a failed uprising. Everybody wears a mask, more often than not of the variety seen only at Halloween these days. In this scary universe (that on closer inspection looks like a twisted, perverted version of our here and now...), a man with a gorilla mask is searching for a little boy with a hessian hood. His quest leads him into a maze of depravity, a pandemonium of all our nightmares and darkest desires – where something awaits that he had already given up on: love.

A batty new comedy that’s guaranteed to suck!

In the computer room, screensavers Kim, Gabriel, Camille, Bobby and Axel·le talk about their conditions of work, the choice to have a passion job and hours additional...

In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.

There are no taboos in the grotesque underground realm of Pfaffenbichler’s 2551 movies, which cross all borders, especially those of good taste. Reviving the original punk spirit of true independent filmmaking, Pfaffenbichler and his ingenious collaborators have concocted another marvel of no-budget ingenuity.

A "green movie" made of footage from over 300 stock and public domain films with a brand new storyline and dialogue. A rogue FBI agent teams up with the United States Army to defeat the KKK, who have invaded to body of an innocent black man killed by a racist cop.

the moon is our constant companian in life, always there to be stared at, always fascinating and mysterious. is there life on the moon? is it made out of cheese? what is happening on its dark side? - this short film tries to give an answer to all of these questions.

Bela Lugosi returns from beyond to present this documentary that investigates the origins of erotic and pornographic cinema, with uncensored footage from the surviving films.

A poetic and absurd short stop motion film about shame, sorrow, power – and an unexpected kind of comfort.
A woman walks through the city, carrying an unusual physical attribute. It's strange, maybe shameful – but it’s there, unapologetically.
When a man appears with a troublesome dog, an absurd confrontation unfolds. Her body reacts. A tear is shed. Something once a source of discomfort becomes unexpectedly useful.
CITYWALK is a grotesque and tender urban dream sequence – blending stop motion performance, gender politics, and surreal slapstick into a visceral one-minute journey.

TRIPOLAR THE MOVIE is a social satire disguised as a stoner comedy which follows a shameless 50-something trying to make a movie with her daughter's clueless 20-something friends. Acid trips and golden showers ensue amidst a biting critique of racism, gender absolutism and climate policy. John Waters meets Larry David but with women.

A racist corporation is looking to expand its territories and for that it needs to destroy the Yakuza mafia. A transgender woman suddenly appears willing to defend the Yakuza tradition.

A rescue mission to free chickens from a factory farm goes radically wrong, and a group of four activists is forced to escape into the wilderness.

Gory stop motion animation made with clay, in which some scientists experiment with sound waves to make the population docile. The problem is that these frequencies also make the dead rise from their graves.

An animated pop-poetic incantation for weirdo intimacy.

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.